How has your county voted in previous presidential elections?

[historybuff]

Androscoggin County, ME (Founded in 1854):

1856:  >60% Frémont (R)
1860:  >60% Lincoln (R)
1864:  >60% Lincoln (R)
1868:  >60% Grant (R)
1872:  >70% Grant (R)
1876:  >50% Hayes (R)
1880:  >50% Garfield (R)
1884:  >50% Blaine (R)
1888:  >50% Harrison (R)
1892:  >50% Harrison (R)
1896:  >60% McKinley (R)
1900:  >50% McKinley (R)
1904:  >60% Roosevelt (R)
1908:  >50% Taft (R)
1912:  >40% Wilson (D)
1916:  >50% Wilson (D)
1920:  >60% Harding (R)
1924:  >50% Coolidge (R)
1928:  >50% Hoover (R)
1932:  >50% Roosevelt (D)
1936:  >60% Roosevelt (D)
1940:  >60% Roosevelt (D)
1944:  >60% Roosevelt (D)
1948:  >50% Truman (D)
1952:  >50% Eisenhower (R)
1956:  >50% Eisenhower (R)
1960:  >60% Kennedy (D)
1964:  >80% Johnson (D)
1968:  >70% Humphrey (D)
1972:  >50% McGovern (D)
1976:  >60% Carter (D)
1980:  >40% Carter (D)
1984:  >50% Reagan (R)
1988:  >50% Bush (R)
1992:  >40% Clinton (D)
1996:  >50% Clinton (D)
2000:  >50% Gore (D)
2004:  >50% Kerry (D)
2008:  >50% Obama (D)
2012:  >50% Obama (D)

Like a lot of Maine, Androscoggin County started off very Republican and Protestant.  However, as the city of Lewiston (largest city in the county) started to receive, first Irish-Catholic and then Franco-American Catholic Immigrants, the small town turned into a much larger one and became a bastion of labor in the state of Maine (textile mills).  That is why it voted a lot more Democratic than Maine from 1912 to 2000.  With Lewiston, voting less Democratic than it used too (mostly because of the mill closings, however, it still has a significant Democratic lean, Obama got 60%, second strongest percentage in the county) and the rural areas around it voting more Democratic than they used too (mostly because of the Republican party becoming much more Conservative, similar to a lot of New England), the county still goes Democratic but by smaller margins than Maine.